赤 字

chìzì

“Deficit” in Chinese is 赤字 (chìzì).

Meaning

(financial) deficit
red letter

Example

我们去年遇到了赤字。

We went into the red last year.

Example sentence from Tatoeba (CC BY 2.0).

Characters

chìHSK 7-97 strokesred zìHSK 16 strokesletter

More HSK 7-9 words

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Not to be confused with: 池子 (chízi, pond) · 尺子 (chǐzi, ruler (measuring instrument))